Music Reviews
Garth and Walmart by Garth Brooks
Garth and Wal-Mart is a parody done by Garth Brooks. I love this song. It should be a wake up call to all Americans that Wal-Mart is part of the decline in our lifestyle and economy here in America. Wal-Mart has already run out millions of small businesses who …
The Rolling Stones - Rip This Joint (Song)
Rip This Joint is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their record Exile On Main Street. The song starts off with a pretty fast guitar part before the song builds up even further and Jagger comes in with a very quick vocal delivery, from the start …
Nirvana band
Nirvana was one of the most famous rock bands in the nineteen nineties. I believe that the band could be considered as the Michael Jacksons of grunge rock music as at the time, their weighty lyrics and heavy sludge sound begun to cause a revolution with popular rock music. …
Black Sabbath: Master Of Reality
Black Sabbath were the original doomsday musicians and their experiment with sound paved the way for what was to become Heavy Metal.Master Of Reality combines all the elements of a true metal band.Ironically, they are the creators so that task was rather easy for them.If you like dark themes …
Tik Tok by Kesha
Tik Tok is the debut single by American singer Kesha. It is an electro pop dance track. It has a nice sound but since the date i first heard, i realized that she inspired of Lady Gaga too much especially inspired of her song Just Dance. The lyrics and …
Song: Pick ‘Em Up, Lay ‘Em Down by singer Toby Keith
Pick ‘Em Up, Lay ‘Em Down by Toby Keith is the complete opposite of what we have been used to hearing from Toby Keith throughout his career. The song is about a man who doesn’t just go play around with whatever woman comes along and then forget about her. …
The Doors - Take It As It Comes (Song)
Take It As It Comes, a track from The Doors’ self-titled debut record, is certainly one of the more well-known tracks on this album, although I could say that about a lot of the songs on this record, and I can easily see why. The track is an extremely …
First Act Eight Piece Drum Set
Knowing that I have wanted to learn to play the drums for years, my daughter and son-in-law bought this set for me for Christmas a couple of years ago. I don’t know what they paid for them since it was a gift but I know that they have been …
Muse - MK Ultra (Song)
MK Ultra is a track by Muse which appears on their most recent record, The Resistance. MK Ultra starts out in a very electronically-driven sound and basically keeps this throughout most of the song. The lyrical topic of the song deals with a CIA operation and the basic structure …
ZAYN - PILLOWTALK (Song)
More than a year ago or so, everyone was so devastated to hear that the heartthrob member Zayn Malik of the highly-popular band One Direction decided to leave the band. At that point, no one was sure why he decided to leave a band so popular. However, just a …
Metallica,Black Album
Before they were one of the greatest bands of all time, there was the black album.
Opening the album is the heavyly rotated “Enter Sandman”. This track begins with mouth crunching guitars and drums. Throughout the entire track you are wondering if the boogyman himself …
Soundgarden: Ultramega OK
Wow! I can’t say that word enough when it comes to Soundgarden’s debut album, Ultramega OK. The band that blew the door down with this powerful, 13 track album. If you’re into rock at all, then this is the album to start your collection with.
With powerful and meaningful songs …
24 Hours to Live (1998): Mase ft. DMX, The Lox, and Black Rob
Artist: Mase ft. DMX, The LOX, and Black Rob
Video: “24 Hours to Live”
Album: Harlem World
Director: Nick Quested
“24 Hours to Live” is the third official single and music video from Mase’s debut album “Harlem World”, following “Feel So Good” and “What You Want”. “24 Hours to Live” puts a tiny …
System Of A Down - Boom! (Music Video)
Overview —“ Boom, a music video released by System Of A Down, follows the band as they marched in a peace protest against the Iraq War and shows various protests from all across the world in protest of this war. The lyrics are quite a bit darker then I …
Sublime - Right Back (Song)
Right Back is a song by Sublime and is the fourteenth song on their debut album, 40 Oz. To Freedom. Opening up with a pretty standard reggae rhythm, Right Back unfortunately seems to lose the unique sound that I thought Sublime achieved with the previous song on the record, …
Lady Gaga - Dance In The Dark (Song)
Dance In The Dark is a song by Lady Gaga which appears on her album The Fame Monster. The track opens up with a fairly annoying introduction which unfortunately seems to remind me of the music of the 1980s. Gaga’s vocals come in soon enough with more of a …
I Quit by Hepburn
This song is so addictive!! And it’s been a long time since I heard this song, but I was so into it again because just now morning I was preparing myself after shower and I turned on the radio and I heard this song over the radio.
I …
Nickelback
Nickelback is my favorite band. They sing so many good songs like Someday, this is how you remind me, photographs, if everyone cared, and rockstar. I love to just relax in my room and listen to the best band sing their hearts out. They are a …
Sledding With Tigers - Sick And Tired/Sick And Tired (Song)
Sick And Tired/Sick And Tired is a song by Sledding With Tigers and the sixth track on their second album, The Hill Sheep. Returning instruments to the mix, I can thankfully say that Sick And Tired/Sick And Tired is not only an immense step up from the preceding track, …
Timeless Favorites: Rodgers & Hammerstein CD
Timeless Favorites: Rodgers & Hammerstein CD is a production released by Reader’s Digest Music. I’m not sure how many of these they did, but I also have one of these with Lerner & Loewe classics on them. There are a number of selections from Carousel, The King …
Smoky Mountain Rain
Smoky Mountain Rain is a song where Ronnie Milsap is singing about a man who is headed for Los Angelis to pursue his dream when he changes his mind and heads back to the smoky mountains to his girl friend. Like many though she has decided to move on …
Ancestors : Neptune With Fire
I think that the Ancestors would a band with folk metal genre. Arrangement simple logic, Neptune is the god of the sea, which in the title of this album, in contrast with fire, so, Ancestors is a group with the genre of folk metal proud of the values of …
Sledding With Tigers - Smile! Why Not? (Song)
Smile! Why Not? Is a song by Sledding With Tigers which is the penultimate song on their debut release, No Randy No. Opening up with a melodic interplay between an acoustic guitar pattern and humming vocals over the top, this track seems to drive the album in the direction …
Bizzy Bone: For The Fans cd
Bizzy Bone is a member of the Grammy award winning group Bone Thugs -N-Harmony that released the smash hit “Da Crossroads”and has come up with a new concept to release mini cds via his website for $10 with productions being limited and the music being all new and original …
System Of A Down - Aerials (Music Video)
Overview —“ Aerials, the first single released by System Of A Down for their second record, Toxicity, returns the band to very metaphorical lyrics and video that they introduced on certain singles, Spiders and Sugar in particular. I suppose that if System Of A Down were to have something …
Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark
Overview - Fear Of The Dark, Iron Maiden’s ninth effort, follows with the traditional standards I have for an Iron Maiden album: great vocal performance, excellent guitar riffs, harmonies, and solos, and just great songwriting in general. Most of Fear Of The Dark follows through on these standards aside …
Tiger In Your Tank by MonkeyJunk
I am a big fan of many types of music, so I would describe my musical taste as eclectic. I love rock, some pop, classical, alternative, rhythm and blues, jazz, soul, and gospel. A lot of the mixed CDs that I mix myself from my iTunes downloads or from …
Sledding With Tigers - Going To Georgia (Song)
Going To Georgia is a song by Sledding With Tigers and is the penultimate track on their second release, The Hill Sheep. Before I begin, I should add that this is a cover of a band called Mountain Goats, so I unfortunately cannot comment too much on the songwriting …
Show Me What You Got (2006): Jay-Z
Jay-Z
“Show Me What You Got”
Kingdom Come
Roc-A-Fella Records
Director: F. Gary Gray
“Show Me What You Got” is the first single and music video from Jay-Z’s ninth album titled “Kingdom Come”. Just when we thought he was out, he came back in. Jay-Z’s previous album, “The Black Album” (2003), was supposed to …
Audioslave CD
This is one of the great supergroups. Chris Cornell, the lead singer of the grunge rock band Soundgarden, has teamed up with the band from Rage Against the Machine to great effect. Chris Cornell’s voice is alternately beautiful and fierce while the band complements the singing with …
The Velvet Underground - Oh! Sweet Nuthin’ (Song)
Oh! Sweet Nuthin’ is a song by The Velvet Underground which appears on their album Loaded. The track opens up with an incredibly laidback rhythm established by a guitar and a simple drum beat behind it along with some subtle bass fills throughout. The band decides to stick with …
The Ring (Movie)
This movie, at the time, was the scariest movie I had ever seen, but I was also like twelve years old when I watched it. I have watched it again since then and I realize how stupid it really is. Maybe the second time just isn’t as scary, but …
Iron Maiden - Fates Warning (Song)
Fates Warning is a song by Iron Maiden which appears on their album No Prayer For The Dying. The track starts off with a clean guitar part with a melodic lead played over it which is a nice start to the track and actually not a way that Iron …
Airbourne band
If your looking for a real classic and raw in your face band check out the band Airbourne. This band is from Sydney, Australia and they have musical inspirations such as Motorhead,ACDC,Iron Maiden and Rose Tattoo. You can tell that they definetely get the most inspiration from ACDC mostly …
Metallica - My Apocalypse (Song)
My Apocalypse, the final song on Death Magnetic, should certainly remind listeners of Metallica used to close their records with songs like Damage, Inc. and Dyers Eve, or at least that’s what this song certainly does for me. For those of you who have heard the two aforementioned songs …
Drake - Hotline Bling (Song )
This is actually the first time I’ll be reviewing a “rap” song. So I decided I’d go a rather different these days because I need to expand my music horizon. Every day I have been doing the same routine, listening to Alternative, Indie, Dark-Pop, Heavy-Beat, Contry and EDM music, …
Animal Collective - Two Corvettes (Song)
Two Corvettes is a song by Animal Collective and is the third track on their third studio release, Campfire Songs. Transitioning out of Doggy, Two Corvettes fluidly opens with a vocal section packed by the acoustic guitar tone that has been present throughout the album thus far. Like the …
Marshall JCM 2000 Head
I recently purchased a very good marshall head that may have had a ripped logo and was torn and used but I really liked the professional tone to it. It was only 600 dollars and was a Marshall JCM 2000 super lead from 2004. I also knew this was …
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Long Hot Summer Night (Song)
Long Hot Summer Night is a song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience which appears on their record Electric Ladyland. The song starts off with a nice guitar riff from Hendrix in the right channel of the song before the other instruments join in as well establishing a nice sound. …
Sledding With Tigers - Hung Overture (Song)
Hung Overture is a song by Sledding With Tigers and appears as the fifth track on the band’s second album, The Hill Sheep. In the previous track on the record, Ten Fourty-Five, I noted that there were several sections where the instruments were actually completely empty from the track …
Carnival Ride by Carrie Underwood
I think there’s nothing that this sweet lady can’t do. Carnival Ride by Carrie Underwood is something that Carrie’s fans should listen to. I love the CD cover album; all yellowish looking and filled with beautiful and smiling Carrie.
Coming to the songs in this album, there …
The Beatles - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (Song)
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, a track written primarily by John Lennon for The Beatles’ record Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band would have to be one of the more psychedelic tracks which the band has written, or at least one of the tracks most heavily associated with …
The Rolling Stones - If You Need Me (Song)
If You Need Me is a song which appears on The Rolling Stones’ EP, Five By Five. I’m aware that If You Need Me is a cover so I won’t really comment on the structure, lyrics, or anything like that but I will comment on the execution of the …
The Beatles - Wait (Song)
Wait is a song by The Beatles which appears on their record Rubber Soul. The track opens up with the vocals coming first before the rest of the instrumentation coming in to join the vocals on the song. Though a listener can certainly hear the unique sound of the …
Cassidy : B.A.R.S.
Rapper Cassidy recently put out his third solo cd which was his first cd released after comming home from jail and as a fan I was very excitied about hearing this cd. However, I was very dissapointed in this effort he put into this cd, I previously thought he …
Please Don’t Go- Mike Posner
This is such a cool, creative song! I love it, it’s been one of my daily songs… one of those that dont leave your head, kind of your theme song of the day perhaps you would say? Well Mike Posner- I got to hand it to him, his voice …
Already Gone
Already Gone by Sugarland is a song about how this girls mother already knew her daughter wasn’t going to listen to her so she let her make her mistakes and learn from them. It’s a lot like that now days because a lot of kids think there parents have …
Green Day - Longview (Music Video)
Overview —“ Longview, the first music video ever released by Green Day comes from their third album, Dookie. One of Green Day’s better known songs of their career, the song and video focus on a teenager having absolutely nothing to do and being bored to the point of insanity. …
Mono : Hymn To The Immortal Wind
Cannot be denied that post rock band Japan, Mono, a post rock band for the genre’s leading that can be said now popular. A stunning live show, with a neoclassical music performance beautiful. New Albums,Hymn To The Immortal Wind also proves the fact it. Songs that appealed as in …
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